AMD Radeon HD 6870M vs AMD FirePro W7170M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M and 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

AMD FirePro W7170M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870M

1.08 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M +174%

2.961 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M

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FirePro W7170M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Oct 2015

Vancouver

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

32

800

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

Amethyst

Granville XT (216-0769024)

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

5 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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